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Marge Piercy quotes: The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen. The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
Marge Piercy quotes: Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen. Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy quotes: If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening. If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy quotes: Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
Marge Piercy quotes: I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
Marge Piercy quotes: With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Marge Piercy quotes: In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,a yam of a woman of butter and brass, In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
Marge Piercy quotes: The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy quotes: Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life. Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life.
Marge Piercy quotes: Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy quotes: What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy quotes: Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink. Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
Marge Piercy quotes: Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy quotes: It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy quotes: When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
Marge Piercy quotes: Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third
Marge Piercy quotes: I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel. I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.
Marge Piercy quotes: The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
Marge Piercy quotes: She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately. She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.
Marge Piercy quotes: We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways. We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
Marge Piercy quotes: I think we validate our lives through our actions. I think we validate our lives through our actions.
Marge Piercy quotes: Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground
Marge Piercy quotes: I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
Marge Piercy quotes: I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing. I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
Marge Piercy quotes: History is a game played backwards only. History is a game played backwards only.
Marge Piercy quotes: The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it. The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
Marge Piercy quotes: Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same. Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.
Marge Piercy quotes: The powerful don't make revolutions The powerful don't make revolutions
Marge Piercy quotes: they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman. they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.
Marge Piercy quotes: Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
Marge Piercy quotes: When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed. When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
Marge Piercy quotes: The price of seeing is silence. The price of seeing is silence.
Marge Piercy quotes: Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind. Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
Marge Piercy quotes: Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys. Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.
Marge Piercy quotes: It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.
Marge Piercy quotes: It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth. It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.
Marge Piercy quotes: If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play. If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
Marge Piercy quotes: Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy quotes: If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks. If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.
Marge Piercy quotes: I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant. I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
Marge Piercy quotes: We are trying to liveas if we were an experimentconducted by the future We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future
Marge Piercy quotes: A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done
Marge Piercy quotes: Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
Marge Piercy quotes: Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside. Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
Marge Piercy quotes: Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy quotes: I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
Marge Piercy quotes: An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy quotes: Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free! Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!
Marge Piercy quotes: When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate. When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
Marge Piercy quotes: All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Marge Piercy quotes: This life is a war we are not yetwinning for our daughters' children.Don't do your enemies' work for them.Finish your own. This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.
Marge Piercy quotes: Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about. Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Marge Piercy quotes: Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh, watch who they beat and who they eat. Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat.
Marge Piercy quotes: Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break. Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.
Marge Piercy quotes: Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream. Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
Marge Piercy quotes: Shared laughter is erotic too. Shared laughter is erotic too.
Marge Piercy quotes: On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim. On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Marge Piercy quotes: I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right. I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
Marge Piercy quotes: The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
Marge Piercy quotes: I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do. I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
Marge Piercy quotes: Good will starts out fat and sweetas tub butter and turns slowly rancid.It must be made again daily if we want it fresh. Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.
Marge Piercy quotes: Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
Marge Piercy quotes: The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
Marge Piercy quotes: Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water. Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.
Marge Piercy quotes: She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world. She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.
Marge Piercy quotes: Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
Marge Piercy quotes: My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb. My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Marge Piercy quotes: My idea of Hell is to be young again. My idea of Hell is to be young again.
Marge Piercy quotes: Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined. Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy quotes: We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
Marge Piercy quotes: We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
Marge Piercy quotes: Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto. Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto.
Marge Piercy quotes: They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use. They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.
Marge Piercy quotes: I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
Marge Piercy quotes: The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy quotes: Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel. Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
Marge Piercy quotes: There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love. There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
Marge Piercy quotes: Like species, couples die out or evolve. Like species, couples die out or evolve.
Marge Piercy quotes: Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk. Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
Marge Piercy quotes: Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen. Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy quotes: I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines. I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.

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